The Rose Within
A certain man planted a rose and watered
it faithfully,
And before it blossomed,
he examined
it.
he saw the bud that would soon
blossom
And also the thorns.
and he
thought,
"How can any beautiful flower
come
from a plant
be burdened with so
many sharp thorns?
Saddened by this thought,
he
neglected to water the rose,
and before it was ready to bloom,
it
died.
So it is with many people.
Within
every soul there is a rose.
The God-like qualities planted in us at
birth grow amid the thorns of our
faults.
Many of us look at ourselves
and see
only the thorns and the defects.
We despair,
thinking that nothing
good can possibly come from us.
We neglect to water the good within
us,
and eventually it dies.
We never realize our potential.
Some
people do not see
The rose within themselves;
someone
else must show it to them.
One of the greatest gifts a person can
possess
is to be able to reach past
the thorns
And find the rose within others.
To look at a person,
and knowing his
faults,
recognize the nobility in
his soul,
And help him realize that he can
overcome his faults.
If we show him the rose,
Then will he blossom,
blooming forth
thirty,
sixty,
a hundred-fold
as it is given to
him.
Our duty in this world
is to help
others by showing them
their roses
and
not their thorns.
Only then can we achieve the love we
should feel for each other;
Only then can we bloom in our own
garden.
~Author Unknown~
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